Re: Ambiguity about what $ means?

Shawn Corey wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:01:58 -0800 (PST)
> Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But, you can still match end-of-line in the middle of a pattern using
> > "\n".
>
> No, that matches a new-line character. The difference is that $ matches
> the end of the line, not a character. This is called an anchor.
>
> "Anchors are a different breed. They do not match any character at all.
> Instead, they match a position before, after, or between characters."
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html

Using '\n' does not match a character.

Don't try to apply terminology from some other regexp engine to Vim, it
will just confuse you. In Vim terminology there is no anchor.

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